What We Know About the Victims of the Brooklyn Building Collapse

AdvertisementSKIP ADVERTISEMENTAt least eight people were killed when a three-story building fell into a neighboring construction site Wednesday afternoon. The search for survivors continued into the next day.Search and rescue operations at the site of a collapsed building in Brooklyn early Thursday morning.Credit...Dave Sanders for The New York TimesNov. 12, 2026Updated 3:17 p.m. ETThe eight people killed when a building in Brooklyn collapsed into a construction site on Wednesday were like a cross-section of the bustling, fast-growing Flatbush neighborhood.They included elementary-school-age cousins, construction workers from Ecuador and Guatemala, and a young man from Guinea in West Africa, according to an internal police report and family and friends of the victims.Six died when the building, at 1321 Flatbush Avenue, crashed down around 4 p.m. Wednesday; workers next door had been doing excavation. Two others succumbed to their injuries after they were taken to the hospital, Mayor Zohran Mamdani said at a news conference on Thursday.Firefighters were still sifting through the rubble, searching for additional victims on Thursday afternoon as rain poured down.“We promise,” the fire commissioner, Lillian Bonsignore, said, “with everything we have, we will not stop working until everyone is rescued or recovered.”Mr. Mamdani said another 18 people, including some firefighters, had been injured.Officials have not determined what caused the collapse.Victims of the building collapse, from left, José Luis Caguana Cosquillo, Edgar Santiago Sapón Gutierrez, and Gabriel Siguencia.Credit...From left: Caguana family, Eliseo Vásquez Tale, family photoHere are the names of the victims:Nicole Daniela Rodriguez, 9Kevin Santiago Reyes Gonzalez, 10Gabriel Siguencia, 22Mamadou Barry, 23Edgar Santiago Sapón Gutierrez, 26José Luis Caguana Cosquillo, 26Juan Daniel Salvada Guzman, 31Unidentified man, 35Caitlyn Freeman contributed reporting.Andy Newman has reported from the New York region for The Times for more than 30 years.Ashley Southall writes about cannabis legalization in New York.Chelsia Rose Marcius is a criminal justice reporter for The Times, covering the New York Police Department.Related ContentAdvertisementSKIP ADVERTISEMENT